Iran Exports Home-Made Electrosurgical Device to 3 Countries
“The main application of electrosurgical devices is in the operating room which is possible by using the thermal effects of high frequency currents. It facilitates incising and coagulation of tissues and stopping bleeding in surgery, and today it is considered as one of the essential devices in the operating room,” said Hamidreza Kaviani, the managing director of the producer company stationed at Pardis Science and Technology Park.
He explained that after making the product and obtaining the license of the Ministry of Health and clinical evaluations, the electrosurgical device was used in the Iranian hospitals, adding that due to its high quality, it replaced similar foreign products.
“We have exported the device to India, Turkey and Indonesia so far and we have also had customers from Syria, Ukraine, Mexico and Belarus,” Kaviani said.
At present, Iran is also mass-producing and supplying medical centers with a home-made Cancer Diagnostic Probe (CDP) device for detection of surgical margins of cancerous tumors which enjoys 95% accuracy.
"CDP is the first completely Iranian cancer surgery device in the world, and so far 20 devices have been delivered to medical centers or are being delivered," said Mohammad Abdol Ahad, a faculty member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the University of Tehran and the head of the Electronic Cancer Research Center of University of Tehran earlier this year.
Noting that the CDP is capable of identification of infected margins and involved lymph nodes during surgery with the help of electrical nanostructure sensor, he said that the CDP is the first completely Iran-made cancer surgery device in the world.
“It took 8 years since the formation and proof of the initial scientific idea based on the electrical measurement of cell metabolism to the final clinical product,” Abdol Ahad said.
He underlined that the Iran-made CDP system has several US-granted patents and more than 11 articles in prestigious international journals in various fields from bioelectronics to surgery with impact factors of above 10.
The Iran-made CDP device displays the results to the surgeon during surgery in real time.
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